George Baird, the Canadian architect, scholar, and educator, died yesterday, October 17. He was 84. The immediate cause of death is not known but he had been in ill health.
Baird began teaching at the University of Toronto—from which he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree—in 1967, and remained a part of the faculty until his 1993 appointment as Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2004, he returned to his alma mater in Canada to serve as dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, a position he held until 2009. In a statement, the school expressed: “It is the rare architect whose voice and contributions straddle the worlds of practice and theory so significantly, but Baird’s very much did.”
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